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I think I had Trainers and Gumboots.

Cheats will take any and every opportunity to justify themselves with "its okay because everyone does it".

Targets INT saves. That's autofail for quite a lot of things in the Monster Manual. And in a boss fight - since there is a good chance you know their name, you can cower behind a wall of force or other place of total safety and wear them down. Can be twinned.

Yeah, level 5 being the biggest level. Levels 5-7 are mapped but unpopulated, washisname’s lair is the whole of level 8, moved to a city location in the new version.

Interesting thing I just noticed: some of the descriptions in Red Nails remind me of the Crystal Palace. Which burned down the same year Red Nails was published (1936). Coincidence though, the story was published first.

It was a big ziggurat! I think the original was around double the size. The city in Red Nails was also a single very large building (although at one time the fields round about had been farmed). These days we would call a single-building city an archology. We are really talking about "city" in...

Don’t matter which book they were in, it’s only comparable to species that were unique to the same book. PHB3 came out in 2010, during the height of Pathfinder popularity and less than 2 years before D&D Next. I doubt it sold well.

How many people actually bought 4e Dark Sun though? If not many people own the book not many people can play the species. The only valid comparison is with other species that only appeared in that book. Then you have to consider the mechanics and the lore. The appearance isn’t the only reason...

I’m not familiar with them, but I’m thinking Tholian. I don’t have an issue with very alien PCs, we already have thri-kreen.

Strangely, even though I'm a fan of Moorcock and an 80s D&D player, I don't like metal music!

As I alluded to in another thread, Sigil takes at least some of it's inspiration from Victorian London. So a population of around 5 million would be appropriate.

Even if the patron were good, the subclass powers are geared around control, coercion and fear. So not really a nice person.

Sure about that?

Yeah, generally when you design a setting you tee up dominos to fall in whatever direction the players decide to push them. Metaplot puts the setting on rails and stops the players achieving anything at all.

I would have gone with paladin. But I guess you can use Oath of the Crown out of the box.

The proper way is to put the chips in a barm cake.

I think it's a shame they didn't include an update of the original wilderness map and encounters. My memory of running the original adventure was we had more fun in the wilderness than the dungeon.

No player map. On a VTT put up some art on the screen. I did something similar for a Faywild excursion. Use real time elapsed (minus combat). Or just throw in an encounter when things get slow or the players spend too much time discussing what to do next. And for any rest periods, obviously...

The original adventure had the lower levels of the ziggurat (octahedron) for that. The city is set up as an urban adventure rather than a dungeon bash, so you don't need detailed maps for every location. There is enough in the book that I could do the rest on the fly.